From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-11-26T09:21:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (11/24/02)


> And given that the concept of 'x++' is very rarely needed in a Ruby program,
> having iterators instead of for-loops, those extra three characters are
> actually a very small percentage, amortised over the entire program.

Regardless, is there a reason *not* to have '++'?
It's the kind of shortcut that many programmers expect and I just can't
think of any reason not to have it.  Following the principle of Least
Surprise, I'd expect to find this feature, unless there is a good reason
to avoid it.

Daniel.